The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary

"Indeed the weather is not propitious on account of the damp."

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to get home.

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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How much we love him — as at that moment I loved Françoise — the good-natured intermediary who by a single word has made supportable, human, almost propitious the inconceivable, infernal scene of gaiety in the thick of which we had been imagining swarms of enemies, perverse and seductive, beguiling away from us, even making laugh at us, the woman whom we love. If

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]

As he took the cup from my hand, Adèle, thinking the moment propitious for making a request in my favour, cried out—

“N’est-ce pas, monsieur, qu’il y a un cadeau pour Mademoiselle Eyre dans votre petit coffre?”

“Who talks of cadeaux?” said he gruffly.